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My B.S. and M.S. degrees are in physics, and I received my Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Since 1988, I’ve supported TARDEC as a research engineer in survivability and have been involved with development, validation and verification of electro-optical, infrared and human visual acquisition models. As TARDEC’s Visual Perception Laboratory principal scientist and investigator, I worked with Ford and GM to apply visual target acquisition models to vehicle conspicuity and novel sensors to automobile 360-degree safety. Other areas of work include developing and integrating armor related technologies for embedded health-monitoring, embedded radio signal detection, and non-destructive testing. I have authored/co-authored many papers in electro-optic system simulation, visual detection, sensor validation, nondestructive armor evaluation, embedded piezoelectric nondestructive testing of armor, and spintronics. Some of the things I enjoy most are guiding development of embedded sensors that can improve warfighter and robotic combat survivability by providing real-time armor health monitoring and situational awareness and testing novel radar sensors based on spintronics.

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October 22, 2018 | Source: DARPA, darpa.mil, 22 June 2018, DARPA Public Affairs and Maj Amber Walker, U.S. Army

Model of the Month

The Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model, or AJEM, is a survivability, lethality, and vulnerability (SLV) computer simulation code capable of analyzing one or more threats attacking a one or more rotary-wing or fixed-wing aircraft, small watercraft, ground-mobile system, and mounted or dis-mounted...